A companion to sport / edited by David L. Andrews and Ben Carrington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrews, David L., 1962-

Carrington, Ben, 1972-

Series:

Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Anthropological aspects.

Sports.

Sports--Sociological aspects.

Sports and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (860 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Summary:

A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. * Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture * Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself * Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution * Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art

Introduction: Anti-sport/Pro-sport

What Is Sport? Some Definitional Observations

Sports Matter: A Companion to Sport

References

Further Reading

Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations

Introduction

1: Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport

Questions (and Unstable Answers)

Origins and causes

Diffusion

Reception

Epistemologies (and Floating Truths)

Objective knowledge

Contextualized knowledge

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

2: Sport and Globalization

The Historical Aspects of Global Sport: Six Phases

Germinal phase (1400-1750s)

Incipient phase (1750s-1870s)

Take-off phase (1870s-1920s)

Struggle-for-hegemony phase (1920s-late 1960s)

Uncertainty phase (late 1960s-2000)

Millennial phase (from 2001)

The Sociocultural Aspects of Global Sport

Universalism, particularism, and relativization

Homogenization and heterogenization

Glocalization

Cosmopolitanism

Political-economic Aspects of Globalization

Nation state and globalization

Sport and the global economic system

The Emerging Global Civil Society and Sport

Conclusions: Globalization, Sport, and "Active Glocalism"

3: The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering, and Future

Introduction: Three Decades in a Complex Life

Complex Prehistory

Television Complex

Complex Today

Conclusion: Future Complex

4: Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body

Sport, Industrial Capitalism, and Revolution

Sport and Social Class: A Critical Sociology.

Structural functionalism

Figurationalism

Neo-Marxism

Jockraker activism

The cultural turn

Bourdieu's neo-Weberian approach

Emergent paradigms

Conclusion: Social Class, the Sporting Body, and Neoliberalism

5: Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport

Liberal Feminism

Radical Feminism

Marxist/Socialist Feminism

Black Feminism

The Impact of Poststructuralism, Queer Theory, and Postcolonialism

New Avenues and New Questions for Sport Feminism: Middle Ground Theorizing and Intersectional Analysis

Conclusion: Revisiting "Old" Questions in the Twenty-First Century

6: Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk

Locating Sport in the Risk Society

Expect the Unexpected: Selling Safety

Anxiety, Assurance, and the Risk-Caution Citizenship Project

High Performance Sport and Health within the Risk Society

7: Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment

Environmental Issues and the Sociology of Sport: The "Early" Years

Sport, Sociology and the Environment: Contemporary Themes

Sport, the Environment, and Neoliberalism

Ecological Modernization and Environmental Sociology

Environmental Discourses and Promotional Culture: Examples from the Global Forum for Sports and the Environment

Example 1 - Olympic Park and London 2012

Example 2: Formula One and climate change

Part Two: Bodies and Identities

8: Paradox of Privilege: Sport, Masculinities, and the Commodified Body

Theoretical Perspectives on Sport and Masculinity

Media, Nation, and Race

Commodity Relations of the New Man and the New Lad

References.

Further Reading

9: Racism, Body Politics, and Football

The Body Politic and Race

Citizenship and Race

Globalized Anti-Black Racism

Black Athletes and Racial Politics

Incidents in Western Europe

Spain

Italy

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Incidents in Eastern Europe

Serbia

Russia

10: Physical Culture, Pedagogies of Health, and the Gendered Body

Obesity, Health, and Girlhood

Healthy Girls, Healthy Futures

Sculpted Lean Femininity

The Healthification of Sport and Physical Activity

Affect, Body Pedagogies, and Gender Differentiation

From Postergirls to Looters: Physical Culture and Consumption Practices

11: Gay Male Athletes and Shifting Masculine Identities

The Presence of Gay Men in Sport

Theoretical Underpinnings into Masculinity and Homophobia

Orthodox masculine behaviors

Homohysteria

Coming Out in Sport

The segmented identities of openly gay male athletes

Shifting narratives of gay male athletes

Heterosexual Team Sport Athletes

Accepting Gay Athletes in the Heart of America

12: Sport, the Body, and the Technologies of Disability

Marginal Bodies

Managing Classified Bodies

Technology

Wheelchairs in track and field athletics

From wooden leg to carbon-fiber blade

Supercrips, Cyborgs, and Les Autres

Part Three: Contested Space and Politics

13: US Imperialism, Sport, and "the Most Famous Soldier in the War"

Professional Sports and the NICL

Ideological Ramifications - Tillman Time

Further Reading.

14: The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in the Twenty-first Century

False Sports Consciousness

Owning the Fantasy

15: Sport, Palestine, and Israel

Sport in Zionism and the Palestinian National Movement

Palestinian Sports under Jordanian and Lebanese Rule

Sports and Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel

Modernity and Sport: Muting the Protest

Palestinian Athletes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

Sport and Reconciliation?

16: Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space

Sporting the Late Capitalist Tourist Bubble

The Model of Urban Renaissance?

Conclusion: Learning from Baltimore

17: Swimming Pools, Civic Life, and Social Capital

Swimming Pools and Civic Life in Industrial America

Swimming Pools and the Social Transformation of Civic Life between the World Wars

Swimming Pools and the Segmenting of American Society after 1945

Part Four: Cultures, Subcultures, and (Post)Sport

18: Sports Fandom

What Is a Sports Fan?

On the Supply of Sports Available for Fans: The Historical Trajectories of Sports Cultures

Why Does Someone Become a Sports Fan?

The Rise of Player Fans

19: Sporting Violence and Deviant Bodies

Introduction: Is "Deviance" Still Relevant?

The Social Control of Deviant Bodies in Sport

Violence and Aggression Theories

Subculture Theories

Identity Politics Theories

Victimology Theories

Why is Sports Deviance Wanted?

1 Hierarchy of social problems argument

2 Internal policing argument

3 Mimesis argument.

4 Athletes as a special population argument

5 Isolated offender argument

6 Impossibility of legal intervention argument

7 Overamplification of sport problems argument

20: Dissecting Action Sports Studies: Past, Present, and Beyond

Understanding the Politics of Action Sports Cultures: From Symbolic Resistance to Social Movements

The politics of incorporation: from subcultural studies to post-CCCS

Everyday politics in action sports cultures: identity, representation, experience, and reflexivity

A "Politics of Hope" for Action Sports Studies: Notes from the Field

Methodological flexibility and researcher reflexivity

Theoretical adventures in action sports studies

Making a difference: Towards a political action sports studies

21: Heidegger, Parkour, Post-sport, and the Essence of Being

Transhumanism and the Sociology of Sport

Parkour, Heidegger, and Post-Sport Physical Culture

Transcendence and the Pursuit of Dasein

22: Race-ing Men: Cars, Identity, and Performativity

Methods

The Boys at Freedom High

Imports versus American Muscle

Risky Business: Boys Who Race

The Need for Speed: Masculinity and Performance Vehicles

American Muscle and Talking Trash

Conclusion: Masculine Distinctions in a Changing World

23: Chess as Art, Science, and Sport

Chess as Art

Chess as Science

Chess as Sport

Part Five: Sport, Mega-events, and Spectacle

24: Sport Mega-events as Political Mega-projects: A Critical Analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Introduction.

The Politics of Sport Mega-events in the Global South.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781118325285

1118325281

OCLC:

851972469